Ischnothele
Ischnothele, also known as scatter-web spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Ischnothelidae. It was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1875.

Original: Max0rz Derived: Peter coxhead · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipluridaePBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ischnothele on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Ischnothele and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ischnothele and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
300 taxa- Miagrammopes dominicanus2 sites
- Oxyopes2 sites
- Prototama2 sites
- Selenops beynai2 sites
- Ablabesmyia electrohispaniolana1 site
- Acanthostichus hispaniolicus1 site
- Achaearanea extincta1 site
- Alumeda antilliana1 site
- Alumeda dominicana1 site
- Alumeda nigricans1 site
- Americhernes1 site
- Anelosimus clypeatus1 site
- Anisepyris gradatus1 site
- Anochetus ambiguus1 site
- Anochetus brevidentatus1 site
- Anochetus conisquamis1 site
- Anochetus corayi1 site
- Anochetus dubius1 site
- Anochetus exstinctus1 site
- Anochetus lucidus1 site
- Antillopsyche auricula1 site
- Antillopsyche digitus1 site
- Antillopsyche oliveri1 site
- Anyphaenoides bulla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ischnothele, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein1
- Spinnen der Familien Tetragnathidae, Uloboridae und Dipluridae in Dominikanischem Bernstein und allgemeine Gesichtspunkte (Arachnida, Araneae)1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ischnothele
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Original: Max0rz Derived: Peter coxhead
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ischnothele was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ischnothele”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDipluridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ausserer 1875